﻿147. — Hook. Brit. FI. p.364. — Light. FI. Scot. v. i. p. 485. — Hook. FI. Scot. p. 

 245. — Grev. FI. Edin. p. 179. — Winch’s Flora of Northumberland and Durham, 

 p.54. — Bab. FI. Bath. p. 25. — Doronicum cordifdlium, Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. ii. 

 p. 468. — Doronicum majus officinarum, Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 759. f. 2. 



Localities. — In mountainous pastures, and in woods, and waste places; 

 about old buildings. A doubtful native. — Durham ; Naturalized on the banks 

 of Wear at Durham, below Mr. Fox’s garden : N. J. Winch, Esq. — Norfolk ; 

 In woods at Cotton, by Norwich : Dr.LiNDLEY, in Fl.Lond — Northumberland ; 

 Gathered in the cold mountains of this county by Dr. Penny : Gerarde. — 

 Shropsh. In a hedge by the road from Much- Wenlock, to the Iron Bridge : Rev. 

 S. Dickenson. — Yorksh. Near the World’s End, Harrogate: Mr. Manby. — 

 SCOTLAND. Fields and hedges about Hamilton: Mr. Hopkirk. Woods 

 near Culross, Den of Dupplin and Rosslyn: Mr. Maughan. Collington: Mr. 

 G. Don. in Dalkeith Park: W. Borrer, Esq. In great plenty at Stobhall, 

 seven miles from Perth ; and near Kinnaird, in Angusshire : Don, of Forfar. 

 Perennial. — Flowers from May to August. 



Whole Plant hairy. Root creeping, tuberous at intervals, the 

 tubers transversely furrowed, a little woolly, and somewhat com- 

 pressed, throwing out from beneath coarse fibres, and from the 

 sides white, fleshy, scaly, horizontal threads, which produce other 

 tubers. Stem from 2 to 3 feet high, upright, hollow, furrowed, 

 hairy, branched, and somewhat viscid in the upper part. Root- 

 leaves and lowest stem-leaves large, heart-shaped, blunt, on long 

 channelled stalks ; those on the intermediate part of the stem have 

 the leaf-stalk dilated in two broad, semi-amplexicaul ears, at the 

 base ; higher up the stem these ears become confluent with the 

 leaf ; and at the top of the stem they are quite lost, the leaves 

 being sessile, and amplexicaul ; they are all soft and pliant, hairy 

 on both sides, and more or less waved and toothed at the margins. 

 Calyx-scales strap-spear-shaped, pointed, about half as long as the 

 ray. Flowers bright yellow. Ray of numerous, strap-shaped, 

 spreading florets, 3- to 5-toothed at the apex. Seeds oblong, fur- 

 rowed, those of the ray smooth, and destitute of pappus ; those of 

 the disk hairy, and furnished with a crown of sessile, simple, 

 roughish bristles. Receptacle nearly flat. The flower which ter- 

 minates the stem is usually overtopped by succeeding ones from 

 the axillary branches. 



The plant figured in Engl. Bot. t. 630, as D. pardalianches, is 

 now regarded, but with some doubt, as D. plantagineum of Linn. 

 Sp. PI. p. 1247. The figure in Engl. Bot., with the exception 

 of the root-leaf, corresponds with specimens of D. plantagineum 

 preserved in the Slierardian Herbarium in the Oxford Garden ; 

 and also with a species which has been long cultivated in the 

 garden, under that name. I received the same species, several 

 years ago, from Mr. Munton, Gardener at Brightwell Grove, who 

 informed me that it grew in great abundance in a wood in that 

 neighbourhood. The much larger flowers ; very long, narrow, 

 marginal florets ; conical receptacle ; and egg-shaped, pointed 

 leaves; will, I think, readily distinguish this species from D. par- 

 dalianches. They both have been cultivated in the English gardens 

 ever since the time of Gekarde (1597) ; and as they both propa- 

 gate themselves very fast by their scorpion-like and creeping roots, 

 it is very likely they may have escaped originally from the gardens. 



The roots of these species are reputed to be acrid poisons. MatthiOlus re- 

 cords ihe instance of a dog being killed by the root of D. pardalianches ; and 

 there is reason to believe that the mortal career of the celebrated Conrad Ges- 

 ner, the German Pliny, or as Boeriiaave styles him, that “ Monstrum 

 Eruditionis ,” was prematurely closed by experimenting with this fatal herb. 

 S ee Engl. Bot., Withering, &c. 



